Avoid Medical Jargon To Shrink COVID Health Disparities, Say Patient Advocates

Last year, in her first year of medical school at Harvard, Pooja Chandrasheka recruited 175 multilingual health profession students from around the U.S. to create simple and accurate fact sheets about COVID-19 in 40 languages.

There’s a lot of room for dangerous misunderstanding when doctors and public health officials talk to diverse groups about COVID-19. Health literacy projects aim to dispel confusion in all languages.

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